Beauharnais Carlant – French Delicacies from Strasbourg
Beauharnais is the fine food brand of the Alsatian wholesaler Carlant from Strasbourg, on the market for around 25 years. The assortment includes: 5 single-origin honeys from France and Spain, plus 9 savory terrines, pâtés, and rillettes made according to regional recipes. A brand that carefully selects French gourmet heritage for its customers.
Beauharnais Carlant is a French gourmet brand from Strasbourg in Alsace. For about 25 years, the company has been bringing French specialties – game pâtés, rillettes, single-origin honeys, jams, and caramelized nuts – to European tables, carefully selected from the harvest regions and manufacturers of France and its neighbors.
At nur Gutes, we carry a selection of honeys and savory specialties from Beauharnais Carlant. An assortment like a French deli that opens its doors wide. Those who shop here get honey from Provence alongside wild boar pâté and duck pâté with orange – the full range of classic French delights on a single brand page.
Carlant from Strasbourg, a French Tradition for Around 25 Years
Strasbourg, the Alsatian capital, has been a meeting point between German thoroughness and French culinary arts for centuries. This is precisely where the Carlant gourmet food company is located – a family business that started bundling the best French specialties under one brand, Beauharnais, about 25 years ago.
Beauharnais, as Carlant likes to explain, is not a manufacturer in the traditional sense. Instead, the company works with small manufactories, beekeepers, and regional producers – selecting, testing, bottling, and marketing. This creates an assortment that bundles the diversity of France under a single brand name, without each individual jar needing its own distribution structure.
The advantage for the customer: Those who buy Beauharnais Carlant get a carefully curated cross-section of the French culinary world – with clear variety specifications, IGP seals for protected honeys, and regional recipes for terrines. The company has built this network over 25 years, and it shows in the details: every jar size is tailored to the typical French moment of indulgence, from breakfast with honey to apéro with terrine.
Single-Origin Honeys and Savory Specialties in Jars
The assortment is divided into two clearly separate worlds: sweet honey classics and savory terrines, pâtés, and rillettes – both in French tradition, both for a well-laid table.
Among the honeys, you'll find Provence IGP Lavender Honey with a protected geographical indication, Provence IGP Honey with herbaceous notes, dark Sweet Chestnut Honey from the Pyrenees, mild Champagne honey, and floral Orange Blossom Honey from Southern Spain.
Among the savory specialties, there is a selection of venison pâté with porcini mushrooms, rabbit and wild boar pâté, duck pâté with orange, a country pâté with honey and figs, a goose rillette in classic French style, plus seasonal variations like the Christmas terrine with gingerbread spice.
Fresh Liver, Regional Recipes, IGP Seals
What distinguishes Beauharnais from arbitrary wholesale goods is the depth of processing for its savory specialties. The terrines are prepared in small manufactories using fresh liver – a significant difference from industrially produced pâtés, which often use dried or frozen liver.
The recipes are regionally inspired: the wild boar pâté with cranberries puts the classic German-French game dish in a jar, and the duck pâté with orange takes up a standard recipe from bourgeois French cuisine. The terrines are delicious both as a savory spread for breakfast and as an appetizer with a crisp salad.
Rillettes are very French. Especially in the region around Le Mans in the Sarthe, they have a long tradition – the consistency clearly differs from a terrine: it is fibrous, because unlike a terrine, rillette involves only meat slowly cooked in its own fat with spices for several hours. Rillettes also contain no liver, which makes them so easily recognizable and special on a baguette.
The quality of these small manufacturing partners, Carlant repeatedly emphasizes, is the true treasure of the company. They deliver in quantities that would long be too small for industrial enterprises – but with a care that can be tasted in every bite.
This is also why Beauharnais Carlant does not try to be a full-range supplier, but deliberately curates. Over 25 years of relationship-building, during which mutual trust has developed, cannot be caught up in a few months – and it is precisely this that the experienced buyer tastes in every Beauharnais product from this house.
For the honeys, the EU-registered IGP seal "Miel de Provence", registered since 2005, guarantees the origin of the lavender and Provence varieties; the other varieties come without pasteurization – meaning untreated and with all the natural properties of a genuine single-origin honey.
From Alsace to German Delicatessen Tables
Beauharnais Carlant is among the established providers of high-quality specialties in France. Its assortment can be found in French delicatessens, but also increasingly in German, Austrian, and Swiss gourmet stores – where the French fine food heritage is valued and not every beekeeper or manufactory can afford its own distribution.
For us at nur Gutes, Beauharnais is an important complement to single-origin beekeeper honey from Austria and Germany: where we rely on the organic beekeeping story with Neber or the Honigwanderer, Beauharnais brings the complementary, classic-French profile – lavender from Provence, sweet chestnut from the Pyrenees, orange blossom from Spain. Three regions, three clearly recognizable varietal characters.
The same applies to the sausage specialties: anyone serving a Beauharnais pâté for aperitif has an authentic piece of French food culture on the table – sorted, filled, and bottled by a company that has known exactly what it's doing for 25 years.
Enjoy the Country Pâté with Honey and Figs
If you want to get to know Beauharnais, we recommend starting with the country pâté with honey and figs – it combines both worlds of Beauharnais in one jar and tastes equally good on a slice of sourdough bread for aperitif or with a glass of Beaujolais or Pinot Noir.
Among the honeys, Provence IGP Lavender Honey is the classic that you can't go wrong with – on a warm croissant, with goat cheese, or simply neat from the spoon. If you prefer something more robust, opt for the Sweet Chestnut Honey – a strong character that pairs wonderfully with aged Roquefort or Stilton.
For a French gourmet weekend: three small Beauharnais pâtés, plus three honeys, a baguette, some salted butter, a few cornichons, a glass of wine, and a little time. A good evening with friends doesn't need more. Let yourself be surprised by how much France can be found in a single company – and how beautifully this France can arrive on your kitchen table.
